Run Long After 60

There are fewer than 40 people on earth who have finished 100 or more races at the 100-mile distance or longer. Bobby Keogh is one of them. He has 108 official hundred-mile finishes — closer to 140 when you factor in his multi-day mileage across 6-day and 10-day events. He ran his first trail race at 32. He is 77 years old. He has been at this for 45 years and he is not slowing down — he is regist...

In this episode of Run Long After 60, I sit down with Mark Werkmeister — a 65-year-old ultrarunner from New Mexico who retired at 53 after a 25-year career as an engineer at Intel, started running ultras in his late 40s, and hasn't stopped since. Mark is grounded, humble, funny, deliberate. A guy you'd love to have crew you or pace you or just hang out. He didn't start desperate. He didn't start c...

In this episode of Run Long After 60, I sat down with Andy Jones-Wilkins — known throughout the trail and ultrarunning world simply as AJW — for a conversation rooted in the history of ultrarunning, the growth of the sport, and what it really means to evolve with it. AJW is a ten-time Western States finisher with seven top-ten finishes. He has written AJW's Taproom, a weekly column at iRunFar.com...

In this episode of Run Long After 60, I sit down with Ed Ettinghausen — known throughout the ultrarunning world as The Jester — the first person in history to finish 300 races of 100 miles or more. He is the number one ranked 100-mile finisher in the United States and the world. He has 38 DNFs. And he will tell you exactly what he learned from every single one of them. But Ed didn't come on this s...

In this episode of Run Long After 60, I sit down with Keith Allison — a 61-year-old runner from British Columbia who had never run a 200-mile race before this year. His first attempt was the Cocodona 250. He finished in 99 hours, 29 minutes, and 57 seconds. That time made him the first person in the 60–69 age group in the six-year history of Cocodona to break the 100-hour mark — out of 34 finisher...

He's been running since he was 15. He's never had a major injury. At 60, he just went out and ran 30 miles for the first time — and felt fine. Dave Perry found his audience six months ago when his daughters told him to start posting his runs on TikTok. No ring light. No script. No production team. Just a 60-year-old man in Northern California going out and running — and his videos have crossed 10,...

Run Streaker Series – Episode 2 In this episode of Run Long After 60, I sit down with two brothers — Chris Nicolaides (66) and Michael Nicolaides (63) — who have each run at least one mile every single day for over ten years. Chris started his streak on Thanksgiving Day 2015. Michael started his 33 days later. Neither one has stopped. But the streak numbers alone don't tell the story. These brothe...

This one is personal.   For the first half of this episode, I'm sitting down with my running coach, Henry Howard — deputy media director of the American Legion, RRCA-certified coach, the creator of RunSpirited, and a five-time 100-mile finisher. Henry has believed in me for years, sometimes when the data probably said he shouldn't. We talk about how he balances running a major media operation at t...

In this episode of Run Long After 60, I sit down with Taylor Nichols — a West Hollywood, Los Angeles actor and bicycle advocate who has been fighting for safer streets for over 15 years, and who hasn't stopped riding since he bought a Bianchi off a drug dealer in Aspen, Colorado in the mid-80s.   Taylor rode bikes as a kid in Michigan, put the bike away at 16 when he got his license, and didn't ge...

In this episode of Run Long After 60, I sit down with Jenny Hitchings — a 62-year-old elite masters runner and coach from Sacramento, California, who didn't discover she was competitive until her late 30s. What followed is one of the most remarkable arcs in masters running history. She didn't stumble into records — she hunted them. Systematically. Breaking times that had stood untouched for over 2...

In this episode of Run Long After 60, I sit down with Ray Mena — a 70-year-old athlete from Long Beach, California, who started running at 45 and never stopped pushing. Ray's story is one of the most layered I've heard. He didn't move through phases — marathons, then triathlon, then trail. He stacked them. Simultaneously. For years. Sub-3 marathons. Ironman. Leadville 100. Wasatch 100. Zion 100. N...

In this episode of Run Long After 60, I speak with ultrarunner Gail Leedy — a 72-year-old trail runner who has spent decades in endurance sports, completing more than 100 races and continuing to show up year after year. But Gail’s running life is built around something even more fundamental than ultramarathons: consistency over time. She didn’t grow up with access to running or organized sports. L...

Lion Caldwell has been running ultramarathons since the early days of the sport — and at 74, he’s still chasing 100 miles. His career stretches back to the late 1970s. No GPS. No super shoes. Just effort, instinct, and a willingness to go further. In this episode of Run Long After 60, Lion shares stories from a lifetime in endurance sport, including: The 1979 New York 100-miler Winning London to B...

Run Streaker Series – Episode 1 In this episode of Run Long After 60 , I speak with ultrarunner Tim Hardy — a runner who has maintained an 18-year run streak while also completing more than 130 ultramarathons , including races like Badwater and The Last Annual Vol State 500K . But Tim’s running life is built around something even more fundamental than ultramarathons: running at least one mile ever...

In this episode of Run Long After 60 , I speak with Leslie Cohen — Los Angeles bankruptcy attorney, Abbott World Marathon Majors competitor, Age Group Champion and one of the most remarkable masters marathoners I’ve met — about discovering endurance running later in life and continuing to compete at a high level as she starts her seventies. Leslie didn’t begin running marathons until around age 50...

In this episode of Run Long After 60, I speak with Kevin Fleeger — a 2x Cocodona 250 finisher and one of the most deliberate athletes I’ve met — about what it means to get smarter with age. Kevin didn’t begin ultrarunning until 59. In May 2025, fourteen runners started Cocodona 250 in the 60–69 age group. Only three finished. Kevin was the first finisher in that division. But this conversation isn...

In this episode of Run Long After 60 , I speak with Miriam Gilbert — known to many as “UltraMiriam” — about what it means to run healing miles in your late 60s. Miriam’s story begins long before the trails. As a child, she faced serious health challenges. As an adult, she became a caregiver. Running didn’t enter her life as competition — it entered as restoration. Over time, endurance became both...

In this episode, Troy shares how endurance sport reshaped his life after major health setbacks, Achilles reconstruction, and doctors telling him to stop running. We discuss DNF lessons, 70,000-calorie races, fueling strategy, faith, aging, and why choosing to live like an athlete changes everything. Troy also opens up about mediating billion-dollar disputes involving Native Nations and how ultraru...

In this episode of Run Long After 60 , I speak with Lauri Rottmayer — The Aging Rebel — about what it really means to start chasing distance later in life. Lauri is training for her first ultra in her 60s, and she shares the unfiltered reality: the mental resistance that shows up early in long runs, the discipline required to keep going, and the wisdom of choosing durability over ego. A former Mar...

In this episode of Run Long After 60 , I’m joined by Ruperto Romero — a Southern California trail legend whose accomplishments are extraordinary, and whose presence is defined by humility, generosity, and deep respect for the sport. Ruperto was open about feeling self-conscious being on camera and speaking English — and then proceeded to be superb. Thoughtful. Honest. Grounded. At one point, his k...

In this episode of Run Long After 60 , I’m joined by ultrarunner, mountain servant, and joyful disruptor Cliff Matthews — known to many on the trails as Young Lazy Deadhead . Cliff is one of those rare people who trains hard, listens deeply, and shows up when it matters. He’s run long miles, rucked longer ones, paced countless friends, served in search and rescue, and quietly helped hold together...

In this episode of Run Long After 60 , I’m joined by runner and comeback story Jim Glenn — known to many as @rebuiltrunnah, and affectionately claimed here as the Robo Runner . Jim lives in New Hampshire and runs with two knee replacements and one hip replacement. Born bow-legged and in pain for much of his life, he was told repeatedly that running wasn’t in the cards. Decades later, after multipl...

In this episode of Run Long After 60 , I’m joined by ultrarunner, retired trial lawyer, and master storyteller Paul James Johnson . Paul is 69 years old and has discovered that his true stride — both physically and mentally — lives in races of 200 miles and beyond. He’s started the Cocodona 250 four times, finished it three, and is already lining up for another run in 2026. Along the way, he’s fou...

In this episode of Run Long After 60 , I’m joined by Bernie Rhinerson — a relentless advocate for strength, mobility, and what he calls power aging . Bernie didn’t grow up in the gym. For decades, he lived a high-stress professional life in public relations, rarely worked out, and ran on Diet Coke, Chardonnay, and fast food. Everything changed after he read Younger Next Year . What followed wasn’t...

In this episode of Run Long After 60 , I’m joined by ultrarunner and legendary run-streaker Kevin Brunson — 66 years young and eighteen years into a daily running streak. Kevin didn’t set out to become a streak runner. It started with a simple answer to a simple question: “Do you run every day?” One mile a day turned into one hundred days, and by then, he couldn’t stop. What makes this even better...